epilogue
Six months later…
“That’s the last one,” Cade grinned, setting the cardboard box on the floor. He came around the kitchen island and wrapped his arms around my waist from behind. I leaned my back against him, smiling. “Now we have our own place.”
“Almost our own place,” I reminded him.
After graduation Cade and I decided to move in together, but since Cade wanted a house, not an apartment, and we couldn’t afford a house on our own we were going to have roommates.
But not just any roommates.
He groaned. “Way to burst my bubble, Sunshine.”
About that time Xander and Thea strolled in. Each of them was renting a room from us so they could live off campus. Thea still insisted that nothing was going on between them. I guessed only time would tell where those two ended up.
Thea wrinkled her nose at us. “Am I going to have to watch you grope my best friend all the time?”
Cade chuckled. “Probably.” He nuzzled my neck and I giggled.
“Bleh,” Thea gagged. “I think I liked her better when she was mopey and didn’t talk to anyone, because this,” she pointed at us, “is getting majorly gross real fast.”
Xander started to laugh and chimed in with, “Well, what do you think is going to happen when they start having loud, obnoxious, bang the walls down, sex.”
“Oh my God!” She slapped her hands over ears. “I didn’t even think of that!” She ran from the room and up the steps. “Moving in here was a bad idea!”
The three of us laughed at her over dramatic antics.
“I’ll finish unpacking the stuff in the family room,” Xander tossed his thumb over his shoulder and backed out of the room, leaving us alone.
“Are you happy, Sunshine?” Cade asked me, cupping my cheeks in his large hands. His eyes were serious, almost worried, like he thought I might say no.
As cliché as it sounded, he made me happy when my skies were gray. With Cade by my side, even the bad days didn’t seem so bad anymore.
I placed one of my hands over his. “I couldn’t be happier,” I promised. “I’m ready for whatever the future holds for us.”
“Like babies?”
I started laughing. “How about you let me graduate college first and then we’ll talk marriage and babies?”
“Deal,” he grinned.
And we sealed it with a kiss.